Case studies

When an international humanitarian crisis happens, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is always standing ready to respond through its large scale fundraising appeals. Woods Valldata are one of their vital partners in ensuring they urgently raise the money they need.

Reliability in fundraising operations is essential for Samaritans and following issues with their existing response handling and fulfilment supplier, they weren’t confident to build their programme in the way they wanted. Migrating to Woods Valldata was the perfect solution.

Woods Valldata and the National Trust have worked together to build and develop the Trust’s raffle successfully for over 20-years. During a retender in 2024, the Trust explained that Woods Valldata were the natural choice.

Migrating database systems meant that the National Trust had to temporarily pause on some direct mail-based activity, and raffle was rested for two and a half years, ultimately lapsing many of their active donors. When they were ready to get raffle started again, Woods Valldata was their partner of choice.

Hospice at Home West Cumbria needed more sustainable and predictable income streams to support their services. Lottery is an ideal strategic fit and migrating their existing lottery to Affinity Lottery from Woods Valldata was the perfect solution.

Retina UK is a small charity with a loyal supporter base, many of whom have a strong personal connection to their cause. The charity was looking for ways to attract more, more diverse, supporters whilst providing existing supporters with an additional way to engage. After some research they felt that a weekly lottery was the ideal way to achieve this and approached the team at Woods Valldata about Affinity – and raised £10k via lottery in the first year.